[1] Navigator Matthew Flinders was the first European to explore the Furneaux Islands group, in the Francis in 1798, and later that year in the Norfolk.

[3] A total of 29 islands in the Furneaux Group have been found to have some tangible link with sealing in the 19th century.

Her mother was one of two Aboriginal women who had been kidnapped from northern Tasmania by the sealer George Briggs.

[5] King Island, at the western end of Bass Strait, is not a part of the group.

During the last ice age, a land bridge joined Tasmania to the Australian mainland through this group of islands.